Grammatical categories : variation in romance languages /
"Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'l...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
128. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: grammatical categories and the biolinguistic perspective
- The structure and interpretation of (Romance) complementizers
- Variation in Romance k-complementizer systems
- Sentential negation: adverbs
- Sentential negation: clitics
- The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian
- The auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect
- The noun (phrase): agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety
- (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: history and variation.
